Franz Ferdinand wehren sich gegen Sell out-Vorwurf

Franz Ferdinand wehren sich erneut gegen die Vorwürfe des Sell-outs, brechen eine Lanz für den Pop und behaupten, dass ein Großteil der Branche an geheuchelter/künstlicher Bescheidenheit leide: "Alternative music sometimes suffers from an artificial modesty. It’s like, ‘Oh, please forgive me for my errors and my abilities, I'm really not trying that hard,’ when in reality, anybody who's in a band is ambitious. We wanted to play pop music. It's that simple", stellte Sänger Alex in einem Interview klar. Aufgrund ihres Kunstschulen-Backgrounds würden Leute annehmen, bei FF handele es sich um eine seltsame, experimentelle Band: "But we're not at all. If you look at the other bands that have come from that background, you see the same thing. Talking Heads, The Who, even The Beatles were all art school bands, but it doesn't mean they're going to be sitting there with some contrived situation."

"We don't see ourselves taking over the world or anything. I like the idea that people might see us [on TV] and say, ‘I could do something like that’. I like the ‘Sniffin' Glue’ (fanzine) attitude, ‘Here are three chords, go and form your own band.’ It's almost ludicrous for us to be in a domain completely taken over by manufactured pop bands and ‘Fame Academy’. I hope people will see us and go, ‘Yeah!´"